Table of Contents
I.
Sturdy Child
The Fruits of Prayer Are Many, The Fruits of the Flesh Are Few
In My Day A Penny Went Somewhere
Small World
Parochial
We Interrupt Our Regular Programming
Hiroshima Flats
Epic of the Material World
Gesundheit
The Road to Cana
Suffer Little Children and Forbid Them Not
A Child’s Book of Knowledge: 00.1—00.3
Cuban Missal Crisis
White Flight
Remorse
Magisterium, Double Negatives, and the Exercise of Power
Substitutions and Equivalents
A Child’s Book of Knowledge: 00.5—00.6
Pershing Avenue, 1960
Yellow American
Raising the Stakes
Sisterhood Is Powerful
Remote Control
Hit Parade
II.
Plomo
Shadow of All Things
Talking in Italics
Anthem
Found: A Study Guide
Tío Builds a Bridge
Llorona
La Charada Cubana: A World of Things
Bicentenario
Aguacero
Found: The Doctrine of Plausible Deniability
Triste Tropique
The Love There That’s Sleeping
Sucio
Then, As Did We
Prop List
Morir Soñando
III.
Father, Won’t You Carry Me, Carry Me
Rugbeaters
Doodles and Dode
Kicks
Bookends
Word Bank
Blue Sisters of Whimsy
Gelatin Mold
I Can Afford Neither
Reliquary
The Battle Between Carnival and Lent
Lobal Warfare
Angelus Novus
Dodge
Uncivil War, Zaragoza, 1974
Façades
The Children I Keep
It Is Difficult to Get the News
The Game of Crones
The Mute Hysterics of Mayflower Lane
Grisaille
Plaza San Miguel
Nothing to Declare